Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-15
General state News.

The Pratt street Savings bank has depos-
it's to the amount of 500, 1872 Is, which
have lain uncalled for for twenty years.
NEW TICKET AGENT.
E. G. Geer, who for several years has filed
the position of night operator at the Union
depot, Middletown, has been appointed tick
ct agent at the State street depot of the Val
lev road in Hartford.
BURGLARY.
Six chickens, three ducks and a silver dol
lar were stolen by burglars from Captain
Sluyter's market in Market street, Hartford,
Thursday morning.
HORSE STEALING AT PENNINGTON.
A valuable horse owned by Morris Muir
ply, who resides in the western part of the
town, was stolen Tuesday evening. The
team was followed to Unienville, but there
all trace was lost.
FROM STANFORD AND VICINITY.
The Stamford Advocate has tbs following:
Mr.. Oliver Wardell, of Noroton, died sud
denly of pneumonia last Saturday. He
leaves wife and two young children and
numerous friends to mourn their loss. He
was buried on Tuesday.
Miss Susan Lockwood, of Stanwich, ex-
pired suddenly at her home last week Tues
day of heart disease. The funeral services
were held in the Congregational church
Thursday afternoon, Rev. F. c. Potter
terment was in Stanwich.
Mr.. William Crawford, of Hunting Ridge,
died on Saturday last at the home of his soE-
ln-law, Jonas W. Searles, aged 81 years.
The funeral services were held at the house
on Monday, Rev. M. S. Phillips officiating.
He leaves one son and a granddaughter.
Mr.. Crawford was an honest and industrious
citizen and was universally respected.
Mr.. Nathan Miller, of Bedford, son of Mr..
Charles M. Miller, died on Saturday evening,
January 1, aged twenty six years, of con-
sumption. The funeral was held at the
Presbyterian church the following Tuesday.
Revs Hoyt and butcher oficiated. The
| burial took place in the Union cemetery. He
| was brother of Mr.. G. o. Miller, a dry
goods merchant of Stamford, and was at one
time clerk in his store.
DIED IN MONTANA.
The family of Captain L. w. jackson,
formerly of Hartford, heard the sad intelli-
gence Thursday that Captain jackson had
| died recently in Miles City, Montana. 1t
was the first news regarding him they had
heard in thirteen years. Deceased was be-
! fore the war a member of the police force in
Hartford and went out as a lieutenant in the
| war. He was the father-in-law of Louis G.
Wiley of Hartford, who has the fine sword
presented to Captain Jackson by the Hart
ford police force when he left for the war.
He was well known as the commander of
f'Jackson's battery" After the war he went
to Montana for the firm of Woodruff &
Beach. and was later in the employ of the
government.
THE CHARITIES OF THE STATE.
More than one-third of the annual report
of the Connecticut State Board of Charities
| is devoted 10 the county homes for children.
There were 513 children committed to these
homes up to July 1, 1886, 291 boys and 222
girls. The Reform school expenditures amount
n rpT L
| in the institution since its opening in 1904.
| There have been 651 in the school during the
| year, including 23S new inmates; and 2O4
| boys have been discharged. Of the 1916
boys discharged during the history of the
| school, 1910 were returned to the parents
and friends, 419 have been placed on the
farms, and 1877 have escaped. Since
| January 1, 1870, 738 girls have been re-
ceived at the Industrial school. During the
| past year 100 girls have been received and
SO placed out in families. The report states
that al insane persons and 116 ldiotic per-
| sons have been found in almshouses of the
State. Keeping these persons in almshouses
| is strongly condemned. There is State
almshouse and the State poor are cared for
under contract. There 80 town aims
| houses and in forty towns the almshouses are
| kept under contracts with private owners.
| The report condemns the whole contract sys-
| tenn and urges the maintenance of county or
| district almshouses.
THE WIFE SOON FOLLOWS THE HUSBAND.
Yesterdays Hartford Courant says: Mrs
Emma D. Gillette, wife of Charles S.G1illette,
| died last evening at half past six, of typhoid
pneumonia, at the age of forty-one years.
Her husband died on Monday afternoon and
| was buried but few hours before her own
| death. Less than two weeks ago they were
| both in apparently good health, and the
dreadful blow that has taken father and
mother SO suddenly out of their home could
| not have been thought of as possible Mrs.
| Gillette was daughter of Mr.. E. D. Tiffany
| of this city and sister of Mrs. Charles H.
| Northam and Mr.. E. Palmer Tiffany. She
| leaves five children, the eldest young girl
| of about IS years in the High school, and the
youngest child of two or three. The ca
| lamity which has fallen SO heavily upon this
Christian home and happy family is almost
| unparalleled in its suddenness and sadness,
| and has touched with sympathetic grief the
| hearts of the whole city.